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Deadline to Apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance Extended to April 7, 2025 News

Deadline to Apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance Extended to Apr...

Raleigh, N.C. - The deadline to timely apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) has been extended to April 7, 2025, for 39 North Carolina coun...

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N.C. Forest Service celebrates Arbor Day and the many benefits trees provide News

N.C. Forest Service celebrates Arbor Day and the many benefits trees p...

Jay 2025-03-17 14:09:47

RALEIGH – North Carolina will observe Arbor Day Friday, March 21, to commemorate the annual tree-planting holiday.“Planting trees is impor...

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Four Days Remain to Comment on the Housing Recovery Plan for Western North Carolina News

Four Days Remain to Comment on the Housing Recovery Plan for Western N...

Raleigh, N.C. - North Carolinians still have time to help shape the state's proposed Action Plan for a pending $1.4 billion federal disaster recovery ...

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Job Growth Continues in NC, But Challenges Remain News

Job Growth Continues in NC, But Challenges Remain

Jay 2025-03-17 11:44:16

By Jay Dellinger, PublisherNorth Carolina’s labor market held steady in January 2025, with the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment ra...

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Kings Mountain sees sewage spill, Saturday News

Kings Mountain sees sewage spill, Saturday

Lincoln Herald Staff 2025-03-17 10:39:23

KINGS MOUNTAIN––Some 113,122 gallons of untreated wastewater were discharged in Kings Mountain, Saturday.But according to City of Kings Mo...

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Fatal crash in Lenoir on Saturday night News

Fatal crash in Lenoir on Saturday night

Lincoln Herald Staff 2025-03-17 10:30:49

LENOIR––A Valdese man died Saturday night, following a collision in Caldwell County.According to Master Trooper Christopher Casey of the N...

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Local 911 staffers honored for saving lives News

Local 911 staffers honored for saving lives

Thomas Lark, Editor 2025-03-14 16:50:20

GASTONIA––Sometimes, ’phoning it in isn’t a bad thing.No, not a bad thing at all. Indeed, it can be a very good thing; even a ...

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Sheriff’s Office Cracks Down on Fentanyl Trafficking News

Sheriff’s Office Cracks Down on Fentanyl Trafficking

Lincoln County Sheriff's Office 2025-03-14 14:12:00

For the last several months the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office narcotics Unit has been targeting Fentanyl dealers throughout Lincoln County. Du...

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Catawba Sheriff’s Office hosts joint meeting News

Catawba Sheriff’s Office hosts joint meeting

Lincoln Herald Staff 2025-03-14 10:16:10

NEWTON––The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office recently held an important meeting with other law-enforcement groups.According to a Thur...

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GPD seeks your help finding homeless man News

GPD seeks your help finding homeless man

Thomas Lark, Editor 2025-03-13 19:04:41

GASTONIA––The Gastonia Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a homeless man. According to a Thursday statement ...

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U. S. Marshal’s and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Conduct Sex Offender Compliance Sweep News

U. S. Marshal’s and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Conduct Sex Of...

Lincoln County Sheriff's Office 2025-03-13 17:38:28

 Lincolnton, NC – Recently, a joint operation by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the U. S. Marshal’s Service Western Distr...

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André McKale Massey, Jr. re-arrested News

André McKale Massey, Jr. re-arrested

Lincoln Herald Staff 2025-03-13 17:19:14

GASTONIA––A Gastonia man arrested Tuesday in connection with child pornography was re-arrested Thursday.According to the Gastonia Police D...

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Sheriff’s Office Expands Lake Patrol to Lake Lookout News

Sheriff’s Office Expands Lake Patrol to Lake Lookout

2025-03-12 15:09:10

Lake Norman - Sheriff Darren Campbell announces the expansion of lake patrol operations with the repurposing of one of our patrol vessel on Lake Looko...

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Police Seize Fentanyl and a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Investigation News

Police Seize Fentanyl and a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Investig...

Gaston County Police Department 2025-03-12 15:01:43

On Tuesday, March 11th, 2025, the Gaston County Police Department arrested Jorge Ednilson Saravia Flores of Charlotte, North Carolina during a drug tr...

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GPD Street Crimes Unit strikes hard News

GPD Street Crimes Unit strikes hard

Lincoln Herald Staff 2025-03-12 14:14:36

GASTONIA––Major drug busts, confiscations and seizures of illegal guns are taking place in Gastonia.That’s the word this week from t...

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Third Confirmed Rabies Case of 2025 News

Third Confirmed Rabies Case of 2025

Gaston County Police Department 2025-03-11 19:11:48

On Sunday 03/09/25, at approximately 5:45pm, Gaston County Police Animal Care and Enforcement received a call in reference to a dog that had killed a ...

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